We’ll provide some targets who will likely improve their value by next offseason, plus some sleepers you should take a shot on before the rest of your league catches up. Then we’ll round out the group with two fades who might be at the peak of their value right now.

Targets

Luke Keaschall, 2B, Twins

The Twins are rebuilding, and it’s very possible Keaschall is now the best hitter in their lineup. While health has eluded him the last few seasons, Keaschall on a per-game basis looks outstanding. In a 49-game MLB sample, he has hit .302/.382/.445 with four home runs and 14 stolen bases. Steamer projects him for 10 home runs and 20 stolen bases next year, but I’ll take the over on both numbers. Possibly as soon as 2026, I believe Keaschall can produce 15-18 home runs and 25-30 stolen bases annually while hitting for average and getting on base. [Geoff]

Brett Baty, 2B/3B, Mets

Although the potential departure of Pete Alonso will factor into this decision, with Mark Vientos likely sliding over to first base and opening up the hot corner, targeting Baty still holds up based on his hot finish to the season. In 190 plate appearances after July 18, Baty hit .291/.353/.477 with nine home runs and five stolen bases. To put that into context, over that same time frame (in 260 plate appearances), Ketel Marte hit .276/.355/.461 with nine home runs and two stolen bases. Circling back, I think Baty might be even more of a sneaky target if the Mets do sign a high-profile first baseman. At face value, that makes his playing time potentially murky, but it might be the thing that makes a Baty owner incentivized to move him now. [Dylan]

Sleepers

Chase Meidroth, 2B/SS, White Sox

Meidroth is the type of hitter who is broadly overlooked by the fantasy community on account of his relatively empty batting average. But with his potential for 20 stolen bases (and solid defense), Meidroth is more on the Steven Kwan side of the spectrum than the Nolan Schanuel side, and he comes with a more palatable fantasy profile. RoboScout sees him as a .280/.360 12/15 type of bat for the next few years, which isn’t all too different from Caleb Durbin, who is being drafted five rounds earlier in redraft and ranked over 100 spots higher in dynasty. With his shortstop-worthy defense keeping him in a lineup, the fact that Meidroth’s floor is so high suggests the gap between the two shouldn’t be so large. He’s exactly the type of player I always find on my dynasty teams. [Dylan]

Otto Lopez, 2B/SS, Marlins 

Three years ago, no one would have guessed that anyone would be promoting Lopez as a good fantasy pick. However, we remain in the strangest possible timeline, and Lopez looks like a great buy heading into 2026. Lopez produced a 15-home run, 15-stolen base season in 2025, a performance backed by a career-best barrel rate of 7.1% and a 38.3% hard-hit rate. Additionally, his expected average, slugging and xwOBA all suggest Lopez actually underperformed last year. He saw a jump in flyball rate in 2025, as well, going from 25.5% in 2024 to a career-high 34.1%. It wasn’t just a matter of adding power for Lopez, either, as he saw improvements to all of his skill metrics, including o-swing and swinging-strike rates that both dropped and contact rates that rose. Lopez did get a little more passive inside the strike zone, but that’s likely a good trade-off for more and better quality of contact. [Geoff]

Fades

Kristian Campbell, 2B/OF, Red Sox 

What can I say, sometimes things fall apart. The 2024 version of Campbell all but disappeared by May 1. It was as if his fairy godmother had run out of magic and his bat speed turned back into a pumpkin. Campbell still produced ok numbers at Triple-A but the bat speed and impact were all but gone. It’s possible a full-healthy offseason helps Campbell recapture the spark that made him BA’s 2024 Minor League Player of the Year. I’m just not betting on it, as things really bottomed out in 2025. [Geoff]

Gleyber Torres, 2B, Tigers

After accepting his qualifying offer, Torres will be playing at least the first part of 2026 in Detroit. As we mentioned in his ranking blurb, Torres’s 38-home run campaign in his age-22 season is far in the rearview mirror. The 29-year-old has been in the bottom 25th percentile for bat speed and sprint speed—two primary underlying skills in fantasy baseball—for two straight years now. With Kevin McGonigle knocking on the door of the infield, Torres’ immediate and long-term future is murky. That uncertainty, along with his declining skills, make it worth exploring trading Torres if you roster him (perhaps even suggesting that an MLB contender might seek bolstering their lineup with him at the trade deadline). He is still a 20ish home run bat with a solid batting average, so he’s still productive. But with his defense being in the bottom third of the league, there’s a reasonable chance he is moved to first base in the not-too-distant future, knocking down his fantasy value even further. [Dylan]